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NRF Calls SCO's Claims 'Meritless'
Xenographic writes "The National Retail Federation has just put out a press release in which their CIO concludes that SCO's IP claims are "meritless," and that Novell is the last company which can show a clear title to the code in question. That SCO's claims are meritless is hardly news to anyone who has been following this, but what is interesting is that the NRF was prompted to release this because of legal threats to their membership, specifically SCO's threats to sue "major retailers." So the businesses being menaced by SCO are banding together, making it that much less likely that SCO will be able to generate easy money from mere threats of litigation. SCO's stock, meanwhile, appears to have taken a small dive from this news. Also, you can find further details and analysis on Groklaw."
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I condone the torture of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers.
Does anybody think SCO's claims have any merit other than SCO and their cohorts? Didn't think so.
Does it? I know this for a fact - more stuff is swapped in IRC servers and it is IMPOSSIBLE to sue a user for downloading something from a foreign IRC server, especially when it accepts anonymous proxies.
The NRA would step in and 'shoot' down SCO's claims.
Why isn't it zero? I don't get it.
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Why do we care if our boys want to beat on them a little?
Fine by me.
I thought I had died, I haven't seen SCO in the news for weeks.
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Scientsts have discovered today that water, sustains life. These are just preliminary results, but I think we might be on to something.
Offtopic? When asked for code?
Turn in your geek card...
As someone who's last name is pronounced as "Nellie" (spelled Nelle in real life) I get kidded once in a while about the "Nervous Nellie" bit.
Funny story: My wife and I were sitting in a Sunday School class being taught by the Pastor's wife. She was making a point about how to watch your words and said "Now, don't be a nervous nellie about this." I looked over to my wife, gave her a shrug of my shoulders and a half smile in apology. When some of the people in the class started chuckling, the Pastor's wife realized her faux pax, and said "I don't mean the Nelle's."
We now return you to the topic of the fall of the house of SCO.
Personally, you are a steaming load.
There is, however, nothing new about war time atrocities. The only difference, these days, is that they cannot be as easily covered up and hidden.
To wit: my old man served in Korea. When he got out, he burned his uniform. Here's one reason why. His commander gave him a pistol and a POW, and told him to take the POW beyond some hill and shoot him. My old man took the POW, shot the gun in the air, and told the POW to scram.
Scenes like that, and like we're hearing about, are a natural result of war, and are natural in war. If we don't want to see American soldiers doing this kind of stuff, the only option is to stop being the world's cop, and bring American troops home. Until that happens, however, the world will see more and more atrocities, will blame America more and more, and America and Americans will be hated more and more.
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But when the alternative is MS - with a pretty similar record for EULAS and draconian IP efforts - SCO is a bit like noise.
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